Same vibe.

#RFKJr #AOC

I love how AOC goes to bat for us. America needs her in higher office.

AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room “In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lamented.

AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room truthout.org/articles/aoc...

Seriously, this country has become the world's biggest *ssh*le. If there's a way to be petty, cruel, mean, or brutal, just look to the current US regime.
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Third female secretary purged from Trump's cabinet Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer certainly deserved to get the boot. But why is it only the women being held to account?

"Until I see one single man in Trump’s cabinet lose his job for being equally ill-behaved and dysfunctional as the women being thrown under the bus left and right, then this is just more rank misogyny dressed up as an administration having standards."

Boom from @lebassett.bsky.social

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

The ruling also permanently enjoins any “materially similar policy,” meaning the administration cannot simply rename the Declaration and try again.

Hospitals that refuse care will face state or local nondiscrimination laws that explicitly protect transgender people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

The Director of National Intelligence has been compartmented from the war Trump is running and instead spends her time inventing conspiracy theories about what happened years ago.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

It's not only the regime using deportation as a weapon. Individuals are doing the same, as an easy way to get rid of people who inconvenience them.

And a lifetime supply of Big Macs.

Predictable (unfortunately).

He's such an idiot.

A photo of RFK Jr testifying to Congress on April 16. The text reads: RFK Jr. calmly breaks down to a Democrat representative why it's critical parents have vaccine choice when it comes to the Hep B vaccine. "We just believe that Americans should have that choice, and that the state should not make that choice for them." "The Hepatitis B vaccine was not safety tested." "It had a 4-day test with no placebo." "We don't know what the risk profile is, and parents are allowed to ask that question."

Would be cool if there were consequences for intentionally lying to Congress!

The state does not force anyone to immunize. Parents already refuse vaccines bc of misinfo like this.

The HepB vaccine is one of the most-tested & studied therapeutics of all time. It’s safer than most of your daily life

They served their prison time. Then came deportation. JJ and Nataly Marinero, two trans immigrants, were rebuilding their lives after incarceration. Their freedom was short-lived.

In this regime, a formerly incarcerated trans immigrant has three targets on their back, and the power of the federal government aimed at them. A combination of anti-trans, anti-immigrant and tough-on-crime messaging by the White House depicts a country under siege.

#TheCrueltyIsThePoint

Beshear: He said, “I thought that I was being depicted as a doctor.” If I was ever in an operating room and somebody walked in in Jesus robes with orbs in his hand, I would have thought that it did not go well for me that day.

Part of the problem is that in the American justice system, it is extremely difficult to obtain any reimbursement for fees or expenses incurred in defending yourself from a frivolous civil claim. It’s just another way our courts favor wealthy people

Trump know this, and uses it to his advantage

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Grok-maker xAI gets USDA backing in pursuit of FedRAMP High authorization The company behind the controversial generative AI tool wants to continue building adoption momentum as usage spreads across federal agencies.

The USDA is going to use Elon Musk’s Grok for a myriad of functions, including “scientific research”.

I can’t see any potential drawbacks to using a bigot-coded AI that is fed and watered by scientific misinformation at the joint that oversees food safety. /s

Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action The GOP threatens to weaponize a potential second Trump term against any and all domestic climate action. But what happens in the United States doesn’t stay in the United States.

Since Viktor Orbán’s approach to governance in Hungary was cited by the Heritage Foundation as their blueprint for #Project2025 (kettering.org/the-global-d...) it seems like a good time to re-up this piece in Aug '24 piece in @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2024/08/proj...

FYI, Seattle.

Billionaires, tech VCs, oil & petroleum companies, private healthcare, private prisons...

Outside of the I-5 corridor, Oregon is a very white, rural state with a disturbing history. And yeah, Eastern WA too.

It goes back to the Cold War...survivalists avoiding nuclear fallout or somesuch.

I Am Begging You to Read This On Muslims, and Jews, and Shibboleths, and the Olympic Sport of Collective Punishments

This brilliant essay is by Mo Husseini, who explores the Israel/Palestine situation from an exceptionally thoughtful and fact based perspective. It's worth reading regardless of the "side" you come down on (or if you do)

I never recognized antisemitism growing up in NY but when I moved to a small town in southern Oregon my kids and I got blasted. It was awful.

Yup. Next to Donnie and Vladimir.

Former New York City mayor Eric Adams obtains Albanian citizenship Adams was granted citizenship and a passport from Balkan country by a special decree from the republic’s president

Huh. Well, that's...something?

There have been street protests in Israel going back to pre10/7. That was one of Bibi's incentives to respond as he did. 🤬

Absolutely! Instead we're going backwards. I hate that we are having to fight all over again for the things we fought for - and made progress with - decades ago.

Now I know preschoolers who include waving signs and shouting "no kings" in their imaginative play. It's cute, but really f*ing sad.

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